ITS HERE...BREAK TIME IS HERE

Relay for life with Christina (T) Apple Blossom Festival...THE fried Oreos :-) (B)

Hello readers,

I know I have let you all down for quite some time with not writing on a regular basis, but at one point in time, this semester was definitely taking a toll on me. It always seems to get really hard in the middle when family issues, friends issue and just a large course load take over your sanity....Luckily with the help of God I FINALLY can say I AM FINISHED WITH SPRING SEMESTER....Oh man you have no idea how good it feels to be one step closer to my dream. In 6 months....3 Osces, 1 packrat and millions of test, I will finally get to place my hand on a real patient and ask, " So what brings you in today" ( my open-ended question :-) ). This semester man is one of those things that will make you or break you if you do not have faith, family and a strong support system. All I can say is THANK YOU JESUS for all of the people I have supporting me through my doubts, my discouragements, my downs and when I just didn't feel like doing it anymore..PERIOD

For finals, Shenandoah's faculty and staff switched it up a little bit this year. Usually they get together and make us a huge pancake ( blue berry, banana, chocolate chip, & regular) and sausage breakfast before finals to get us all energized to take the tests. However, our director (also a chef, a photographer and everything else you can imagine :-) ) thought it would be a cool idea for the faculty and staff to have a chili cook-off for our finals feast. Each one of them made their very own chili and at the end of it all the class voted on the "best chili" winner and named the winner, a woman in this case, The Queen of the spoon. The winner was one of our professors Anne Schempp with my favorite chili "Old fashion sweet chili" made by Cathy Carr in close 2nd.. It was exciting....Oh don't worry you will see pictures very soon posted on here. It was something fun to do before we all tackled our last final THE NEURO FINAL...well before they tackled it that is :-)

Tomorrow, Thursday May 6, 2010 will mark our last day of our semester. As part of our anatomy class we have to take the last day of our semester and go through all the bodies to dispose of them, clean out the tanks and just tidy up the lab so it will be ready for the next round of bodies for next years class to enjoy. You have NO IDEA (yet) how good its going to feel to NEVER ( God willing) smell the awful smell of formaldehyde and occasion mold here and there. Our class is already planning to have a nice little party and relaxation get together before we all go to our respective homes to rejuvenate and get ready for the fastest semester of them all SUMMER SEMESTER!!!....It's a good thing we get this break because we all miss our families. Stress has made us get irritated with each other, the teachers, faculty, our loved ones, our pets, the laundry, our dishes, anything.....ESPECIALLY during finals week.

For a break right before finals, a few new classmates, some old classmates, and of course myself went out and enjoyed winchester, Va's biggest event of the year called Apple Blossom. When I say biggest event of the year I mean, Winchester shuts down the city and we all have no school just to celebrate this festival. This was the first time I actually participated in the activities and I must say I was very impressed. The vendors had such wonderful foods and I am so happy I didn't let listen to my mind and decided to be spontaneous enough to try the infamous FRIED OREOS...What a pleasant surprise of goodness..It was like melted chocolate with a creamy center of heaven..mmmm mmm good....Luckily I have a gym that I was able to go to and run on the treadmill for 3 hours the next day. But really who am I kidding, because in all actuality it would probably take me 5 days to run off all the goodies I indulged in that day :-)..Anyways after the longest parade of my entire life was over, and we all said our good byes, I was forced to go back home and prepare for my anatomy final..... Now I am so thankful I have finished all of my finals and I have done really well on all of them thus far :-)...God is good I tell ya!

So I am happy to say to all of you who read my blogs that I am officially finished with the spring semester of PA school AGAIN....Lord I know you have your vision for me, but please never make me go through this again lol.... I do believe that I came back to meet the people that I have met in this program. It feels like some of them I have known all my life and I love them dearly!!!.... They will be friends for life I can already tell!!!

Thanks for reading,

So close to my dream and it feels so good :-)

Taneisha